162 THe WiLson BULLETIN—NOs. 76-77. 
icus to the ornithological limbo, and Jatissimus came to its 
own only to give way at last to the long ignored platypierus 
of Vieillot, in 1901, when Faxon reasserted Ord’s editorship and 
the existence of the 1824 edition or reprint of Wilson’s Ameri- 
can Ornithology; and as he states, both Ord’s and Bonaparte’s 
names are anticipated by the Sparvius platypterus of Vieillot, 
1823! Riley and Richmond burrowing through musty vol- 
umes of ancient ornithological lore, have recently discovered 
in the Falco fuscus of Miller, 1777, an immature Buteo, prob- 
ably B. platypterus; considered a fairly good representation 
for an old plate, “though the tail is too fulvous and the dark 
brown subterminal band is much too narrow.” Here again, 
the Broad-wing and the Sharp-shin clash, for until recently,- 
fuscus, based primarily upon this drawing, was the gener- 
ally accepted specific name for this Accipiier. 
“? Falco fuscus Miller, Various Subjects Nat. Hist., Pt. 8, 1777, 
pl. 18—Shaw, Cimelia Physica, 1796, 35, pl. 18. ? [Falco] fuseus 
Gmelin, Syst. Nat., I, i, 1788, 280 (based on Miller pl. 18; not of 
Gmelin 271). Latham, Index Ornith., I, 1790, 48, No. 108 (same 
basis). ? /’[alco] cinerascens Bechstein, Latham’s allgemeine, Ueber- 
sicht der Vogel, IVY, 1811, 36 (based on Lathan, Index, I, 43, 
No. 103)).” 
Wilson suggests, Am. Orn. IV, 1812 92; and Coues, Cent. Dict. 
I, 1891, 748; considers the probability of the Buzzardet Falco albi- 
dus Pennant Arctic Zool., II, 1785, N. 109; being identical with this 
species. 
Buteo platypterus platypterus (Vieillot). 
Falco pennsylvanicus Wilson, Am. Orn., VI, 1812, p. 92, pl. 54, 
fig. 1 (type in coll. Philadelphia Acad. Nat. Sci.; not of Wilson f¢. c. 
13, pl. 46, f. 1).—Latham, Gen. Hist. Bds., I, 1821, 268—Bonaparte, 
Sp. Comp. D. Orn,, 1827, 19; Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist. N. Y¥., II, 1828, 
29; Oken’s Isis, XXV, 18382, 1187.—Audubon, Bds. Am. I, 1828, pl. 
XCI; Orn. Biog., I, 1832, 461: 7bid. V, 1839, 377.—Jardine, Wilson’s 
Am, Orn., IT, 1832, 298.—Nuttall, Manuel, I, 1832, 105.—Temminck, 
Index de oseaux, G6, 18386, 5; Nouv. Reg., I, 1837>—Magiet, Cat. 
Magn., 1846, 2—Chartrouse, Cat. de Ois., 1856, 5—Holmes, Rep. 
Conn. Patents, 1856, Agri. (1857), 118—Samuels, Bds. N. Eng., 
1870, 40; Our N. and E. Bds., 1888, 40. 
Falco pensylvanicus Bonaparte, Cat. Bds. U. S, 1827, 10. 
